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title: 'Create your own Role at Restate'
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# Create your own Role at Restate

- **Company:** Restate
- **Location:** United States / Europe
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-05-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-13
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/restate/05df68ab-2a1b-45fe-9585-7ec50610aae5

## Job description

Didn't find the right role? We still want to hear from you. At Restate, we're always looking for exceptional talent. Even we if we don't have the perfect role posted right now, we encourage you to share your dream role.

What to expect:

- This is not for specific open role - we want to hear what you're great at
- Please don't expect a response within days. We review general applications on a rolling basis
- If your profile matches an upcoming role, Recruiting will reach out to you directly
- Your application will be kept on file for future opportunities
- Restate operates remotely in Europe and the US, and we currently do not sponsor visas.

## Why Restate

Durable runtimes are becoming the next foundational infrastructure layer, especially for AI. Restate’s vision is to make durable execution efficient and lightweight to run. Restate is built by a team of world-class engineers - the creators of Apache Flink, leaders from Meta's messaging infrastructure, and senior engineers from AWS and Confluent. AI-native companies like Replit as well as Fortune 500 enterprises rely on Restate in production for their core applications. With a fresh $20M Series A fundraise by top tier investors and strong traction, we’re just getting started and are looking for people who share our vision and work ethos.

## About Restate

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Restate provides a lightweight runtime for building innately resilient distributed applications, AI agents, and workflows using durable execution.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Igal Shilman, Till Rohrmann

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Developer infrastructure / Software development tools
- **Target customers**: B2B – developers and engineering teams building resilient microservices, event-driven architectures, AI agents, and long-running workflows. Used by teams in banking, fintech, AI, and developer infrastructure.
- **Mission or purpose**: "Build innately resilient distributed apps" and "Focus on your logic, not failure mechanics."

## Products & Services
- **Restate Runtime**: A lightweight, self-contained binary that provides durable execution, workflows, virtual objects, and durable agents. Handles idempotency, retries, timers, scheduling, and RPC without requiring external message brokers or workflow orchestrators.
- **Restate Cloud**: Fully managed service for running Restate workloads.
- **SDKs (TypeScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust)**: First-class SDKs that let developers write business logic as plain functions while Restate handles durability, state, and retries.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $7.0M (Seed round, June 2024)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Lead investor – Redpoint (seed round). Customers include KPMG, Unkey, Fortis, Cinder.
- **Growth Signals**: Monthly website traffic of ~35k visits (+28% month-over-month, +166% year-over-year); GitHub repo with 4,000+ stars; LinkedIn followers ~2,660; team size 17 employees across 6 countries. Active open-source community with 80 public repos.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Lightweight and self-contained**: Single binary that can run locally, on Kubernetes, or on bare metal – no heavy dependencies or external orchestrators needed.
- **Durable execution without a PhD**: Simplifies building resilient distributed systems by automatically handling retries, state persistence, and failure recovery, lowering the complexity tax.
- **Multi-language SDKs**: First-class support for TypeScript, Python, Java, Kotlin, Go, Rust, enabling adoption across diverse tech stacks.
- **Open source**: Core runtime and SDKs are open source (Apache 2.0 or MIT), fostering community contributions and transparency.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI agent durability**: Building features for stateful AI agents, tool-using LLM workflows, and long-running conversations.
- **Distributed mode**: Expanding to high-throughput, high-availability workloads via distributed mode.
- **Growth of SDK ecosystem**: Continuous improvements to existing SDKs and potential new language support.
- **Enterprise adoption**: Growing customer base in banking, fintech, and developer infrastructure segments.

## Why Work Here
- **Engineering culture**: Small, focused team of 17 people with a strong open-source contribution background (alumni from Apache Software Foundation, Apple, Stedi, etc.).
- **Tech stack**: Heavy use of Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, Python – modern, polyglot environment.
- **Remote-friendly**: Team operates across 6 countries (US, UK, Germany, Italy, South Africa, Belgium), indicating a distributed/hybrid culture.
- **Growth opportunity**: Early-stage startup with significant traction (4k+ GitHub stars, growing traffic, notable customers) – chance to have high impact and shape product direction.
- **Berlin headquarters**: Berlin is a major European tech hub with vibrant startup scene. Office presence may offer hybrid flexibility.
- **Perks**: Not publicly detailed but typical for seed-stage startups: equity, flexible work, and ownership over critical infrastructure.

## Sources
1. [restate.dev](https://restate.dev/)
2. [linkedin.com/company/restatedev](https://www.linkedin.com/company/restatedev)
3. [github.com/restatedev](https://github.com/restatedev)
4. [docs.restate.dev](https://docs.restate.dev/index)
5. [restate.dev/careers](https://www.restate.dev/careers) (limited content)

## Other roles at Restate

- [Solutions Architect](https://feeny.ai/job/solutions-architect-restate-united-states-rszzvazbh3sc) — United States
- [Product Designer](https://feeny.ai/job/product-designer-restate-europe-48nx2mszxsjm) — Europe
- [Design Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/design-engineer-restate-europe-gt5qrdzx5eyf) — Europe
- [Frontend Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/frontend-engineer-restate-europe-3hrpbm7dq7ey) — Europe
- [Product Marketing Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/product-marketing-manager-restate-united-states-7sqja752pxfh) — United States
- [Developer Relations Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/developer-relations-lead-restate-united-states-w3mae9j1z4z4) — United States